Maniac
Book Feature - Maniac by Harold Schechter
HBL Note: Harold Schechter is a best-selling author of true crime. His latest book, MANIAC, tells the story of America’s first act of domestic terrorism, the Bath School Massacre of 1927. If this is the first you’re hearing of it, you aren’t alone. In Googling it, I found out that it was a series of attacks that killed 44 people, 38 of whom were elementary students. This is what I love most about books based on history - they educate us about historical events in an approachable way. Scroll down to read more about Maniac by Harold Schechter.
Book Feature - Maniac by Harold Schechter
Book Feature - Maniac by Harold Schechter
From the publisher:
In 1927, while the majority of the township of Bath, Michigan, was celebrating a new primary school—one of the most modern in the Midwest—Andrew P. Kehoe had other plans. The local farmer and school board treasurer was educated, respected, and an accommodating neighbor and friend. But behind his ordinary demeanor was a narcissistic sadist seething with rage, resentment, and paranoia. On May 18 he detonated a set of rigged explosives with the sole purpose of destroying the school and everyone in it. Thirty-eight children and six adults were murdered that morning, culminating in the deadliest school massacre in US history.
Maniac is Harold Schechter’s gripping, definitive, exhaustively researched chronicle of a town forced to comprehend unprecedented carnage and the triggering of a “human time bomb” whose act of apocalyptic violence would foreshadow the terrors of the current age.
Book Feature - Maniac by Harold Schechter
